Welcome to NBRC

Northamptonshire Biodiversity Records Centre (NBRC) supports the recording, curation and sharing of quality verified environmental information for sound decision-making. We are a not-for profit, impartial, independent provider of biodiversity and geodiversity information for all who wish to use it. The centre is one of nearly fifty county-based Local Environmental Records Centres operating across the UK and we are members of the national Association of Local Environmental Records Centres (ALERC), the National Biodiversity Network (NBN), the National Forum for Biological Recording (NFBR), and the county’s Biodiversity Partnership and Local Nature Partnership.

Request a data search to gain information about species, habitats and wildlife sites in a particular location of Northamptonshire.

Enquire about an annual service level agreement for your organisation to gain digital GIS layers.

Project WILDside

Beeflies are back! After our September update of receiving 26 additional records, the final count for submitted Beefly records for 2018 was nearly double this. Therefore, due to the successful addition of 50 new Beefly records to our database in 2018, we've decided to run the survey again this year. So, why not find out more about these fascinating flies by reading the information on our Look out for Beeflies!survey page and submit your sightings for 2019........

September 2018 Update - Our "Look out for Beeflies!" survey is now over. Thank you to everyone who submitted records for this species focussed survey. We are happy to announce that as a result of the survey, an additional 26 records have been added. If you still have records to add, you can still add the them to using our Submit a sighting form.

April 2018 Update - Our "Look out for Mistletoe!" survey is now over. Thank you to everyone who submitted records for this species focussed survey. We are happy to announce that as a result of the survey, an additional 61 records have been added. If you still have records to add, you can still add the them to using our Submit a sighting form.

December 2017 Update - Take part in our first "Look out for" survey and help us to look out for Mistletoe.

Our Heritage Lottery Fund supported project runs until December 2019. The project aims to enthuse and enable the next generation of wildlife recorders across Northamptonshire. This includes encouraging new recorders and supporting existing recorders to develop their skills. Please click on the logo to find out more about this exciting project.